Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Society and Culture There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Society and Culture
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Society and Culture Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Society and Culture
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Society and Culture Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Society and Culture
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Society and Culture The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Society and Culture
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Society and Culture You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Society and Culture
May you never leave your marriage alive. "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Society and Culture Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Society and Culture
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Society and Culture Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Society and Culture
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Society and Culture Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Society and Culture
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Society and Culture blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Society and Culture
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Society and Culture A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Society and Culture blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Society and Culture
